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Sound Off! (Dec. 3)

Posted:
12/03/2012 12:33:20 AM MST

Amazing that we spent millions and millions of dollars to get a downtown that looks like Grants, New Mexico or Holbrook, Arizona. Fifty percent of those buildings are empty and ugly, but now we get to drive through and look at them.

If the State Police are really so short of help, maybe they should just put a sergeant in charge of the Las Cruces district, like most states do. A captain to supervise 19 officers?

Surprised there is such a shortage in Sheriff's Department. They have enough officers to harass the Las Alturas residents, setting up four cars and radar last month, and this was not the first time.

Must be autumn because of the wonderful aroma from the chili plant is all over town this time of year.

Thank you LC City Councilman Miguel Silva for voting against the strip club opening in our city. We don't need businesses like that here.

I agree there should be investigations on what is going on eliminating all these things from the senior citizens program. I'd like to know how much money the federal government and the state contributes to the senior citizens centers in Las Cruces. We have never had an audit of it.

Sir Richard Branson has not even launched his $200,000-per-person spaceship for rich people. Now he wants to start planning for a population on Mars. Maybe New Mexicans can pay more taxes to support this foolhardy venture at our idle spaceport.

It is amazing how many drivers don't look both ways and turn into the paths of joggers and pedestrians.

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Then somebody's dog is either jumping up over the wall or chasing us from out of their yard. It is just totally amazing how these people don't look while they are driving and don't take care of their dogs.

On Fox News, all I kept hearing about is how the unions were breaking the Hostess plant that is closing. But what they don't tell the public is that 19 executives from that very company are in line to get over $2.2 million in bonuses while they are asking the unions to take their third concession in the past seven years.

I am confused. If the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy are 10-plus years old and these people are creating jobs, why is Obama being chastised for the unemployment rates? Where are the jobs they created?

To the person who thinks the fiscal cliff that President Obama and his administration are using their usual scare tactics is more important than finding out the truth of the American lives lost in Libya. Wouldn't you want answers if one of those Americans slaughtered were one of your family?

I no longer support Susan Rice as a candidate for secretary of state. Her shameless tirade against Palestine at the U.N. yesterday was too much. The U.S. could have honorably abstained to vote and still kept the support of the Jewish-American voting bloc.

As the Democrats and Republicans talk about entitlement cuts, why cut someone who has paid into it for all these years and now they are close to retirement. But if you tell someone who is 20 years old that you need to start putting away in a separate account, the Medicare is not going to be there, they have 20, 30 or 40 years to save.